On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:27 PM Trevor Karn <trevor.k.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would be willing to help make improvements to the manual, my only > hesitation is that I'm not 100% sure what is going on with the bootstrapping. > Is there anything particular to bootstrapping in Sage that wouldn't show up > in googling around about it?
./bootstrap is a shell script that calls autoconf and other autotools, as well as sets up several other things. It would make sense if bootstrap also printed platform-specific system packages (as listed in build/pkgs/_bootstrap/distros/<platform>.txt) it needs, in case it fails and tells them to try "./bootstrap -d", - see the lines echo >&2 "Bootstrap failed. Either $verb autotools or run bootstrap with" echo >&2 "the -d option to download the auto-generated files instead." in bootstrap. It ought to be relatively straightforward (not sure about platform recongition, this might be a bit of work (probably copying from the right place in Sage's build/ ?) Dima > > Best Regards, > > Trevor Karn > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:15 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 9:09:32 AM UTC-8 zsc...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I see that the link I posted to the installation from source documentation >>> doesn't mention autoconf/automake, but I would have thought some other >>> package would have already installed them. Probably since homebrew is all >>> bottles now they don't automatically get installed anymore if you are not >>> building locally. >>> >>> But Dima is right, it's probably best practice to brew install the packages >>> listed in the file build/pkgs/_bootstrap/distros/homebrew.txt. >>>> >>>> >> >> The installation manual does not mention the bootstrapping prerequisites >> because users installing source releases will not need them. >> Bootstrapping is only needed when developers use branches from git that make >> changes to packages or build scripts. >> >> However the developer's manual should be updated to discuss bootstrapping. >> >> There is a ticket for improvements to this manual - >> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29784 - which needs help. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/TmbLnmwz2mg/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/43f209e5-8536-4685-8c9d-78e5eeb0aa84n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAJ6VCMDGmFZ%2BOqofD2t8_-yjd3FapZtY%3DPF_Nhz%3DFJoGLyKuuA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq1v1qEfydGZQ-risbQ4qXv2G%2BjEgwuNB8jen9FUAknzbA%40mail.gmail.com.